Beyond Coal hosts Cheney meeting on coal and oil trains

Over 40 trains, like this one at the Mullinix Road crossing, pass through Cheney daily, including 1-2 oil trains and 4-plus coal trains. If estimates are correct, by 2023 there could be over 80 coal and oil trains rumbling through the city daily.

The Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign is holding a public meeting Wednesday morning, April 16, from 7:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. to present new information on coal and oil traffic through the region. The meeting takes place at the Cheney Library's resource room, and features Terry Whiteside, one of the author's of a 2012 report, "Heavy Traffic Ahead," detailing the impacts increased coal shipments from Montana's Powder River Basin will have on four Pacific Northwest states.